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Why these anti-first amendment hate speech policies are complete bullsh*t. When men are deciding what constitutes hate, it's women's voices. Nearly every major platform is banning women from speaking about the conflicts between women's rights & transgenderism. /1
It's no accident that 'misgendering' is considered 'hate speech' while 'revenge porn' and misogyny -- even violent hatred & threats -- are not. #RedditHatesWomen & so does Medium, Twitter, WordPress, Facebook, CrowdJustice, Care2 & Change petitions, Wikipedia, Amazon & others. /2
Can we come together & build our own platforms? If you have skills or money, even if you can't put your name out there, we need you. This #censorship cannot stand. It's how fascism starts & democracy dies. We need #FreeSpeech & for-profit platforms have NO incentive to ensure. /3
There's some talk about the incident at Speakers Corner at the centre of JK Rowling's accidental transphobic tweet to a 9-year-old.
Here's the timeline of the Speakers Corner assault case - a #Thread on the risks of protesting while #transgender.
news.sky.com/story/feminist…
Here's the timeline of the Speakers Corner assault case - a #Thread on the risks of protesting while #transgender.
news.sky.com/story/feminist…
From the article:
1. Maria Maclachlan was "antagonising" transgender protesters before she was "thrown to the ground and kicked" in Hyde Park.
1. Maria Maclachlan was "antagonising" transgender protesters before she was "thrown to the ground and kicked" in Hyde Park.
2. The protest had been organised ahead of a meeting on changes to the Gender Recognition Act, which would allow people to use the gender they identify with on identity documents without the input of a doctor.
I wrote the following after the first #GIDYVR talk with #MeghanMurphy in Vancouver, January 2019 to summarise the disinformation being spread about her and what was said there:
Feminism is about liberation of women from the patriarchy. It's not about equality.
Feminism is about liberation of women from the patriarchy. It's not about equality.
Being able to have an open, honest conversation about the impacts of gender politics on women's rights is hugely important and is not actually hate speech. It's not illegal to criticise an ideology. The silencing and targeting of feminists is the fascism we are being accused of.
Radical feminists aren't nazis. We're not fascists. We're mostly anti-capitalism socialists. We want to free everyone from the restrictive system of gender roles.
Large police presence outside the Palmerston location of the Toronto Public Library in preparation for a protest planned against controversial speaker, Meghan Murphy. @globalnewsto #MeghanMurphy 
Library staff say the #MeghanMurphy speaker event is sold out — with all 110 tickets being purchased. Scheduled to begin at 6:45 pm and run until 7:30 pm. Protest set to begin at 6 pm. @globalnewsto
Here’s some background info leading up to #MeghanMurphy’s controversial speaking session. The self-described feminist, who is opposed to equal rights for transgender people, will be giving a talk on gender identity. LINK: globalnews.ca/news/6098974/t…
When #MeghanMurphy speaks at your facility @TorontoLib and @SFU, will it put you at risk of a human rights complaint for not living up to your own policies prohibiting discrimination or hate propaganda when she says this?
...a thread.
@Cinecraig @SFUGSWS
...a thread.
@Cinecraig @SFUGSWS
"I think that, I don't think everyone who supports transgender ideology is necessarily a misogynist but I think this movement began because of autogynephilic men.
So men who have fetishes around imagining themselves as women or wearing women's clothes.
So men who have fetishes around imagining themselves as women or wearing women's clothes.
They're using that "born this way" thing that was used by the LGBT...or LGB [pause] movement I can't even say it without the T any more [laughs] is misogynistic in itself because they are fetishizing femininity and fetishizing womanhood and turning it into a sexual thing.
Last night Rob Rinder made a programme about 2018 and concluded it was a good year for women. Was he living on Mars then? 2018 has seen a woman forced to refer to her male assailant as 'she' by a Judge #WarOnWomen #womenstandup
2018 has seen unprecedented numbers of women permanently banned from Twitter #MeghanMurphy despite tweets abusing women being routinely ignored #WarOnWomen #womenstandup
We've seen no drop in the number of murders of women by male partners and yet the Police think misogyny doesn't need to be a crime #WarOnWomen #womenstandup 8 murdered this Christmas
This is the person who has been harassing #MeghanMurphy, admitting at a city council meeting to being responsible for her Twitter ban, and asking that she be prosecuted for hate crimes:
For additional context, here is a sex toy review article by the same person—I'm not sure what's the actual gender of the genitals being stimulated, but that very ambiguity is half the fun: archive.is/lLtRH
Should we not speak about this person?
Jessica Yaniv (starting 1:40 in video) appeared at Township of Langley meeting on 10 Dec. Discusses traffic lights & among other things (see linked PDF, right) proposes changes to public bathroom policies--including tampon/pad machines in men's bathroom.
tol.ca.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.ph…
tol.ca.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.ph…
At 5:28, Yaniv tells the Langley Township council that #MeghanMurphy "violated the Canadian criminal code" and adds "I personally got her Twitter account suspended [chuckles] and created global outcry...& created global policy changes in social networks."
tol.ca.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.ph…
tol.ca.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.ph…
Yaniv specifically mentions "Twitter and Wordpress and such" censoring and banning writers and takes responsibility for that change. "However, #MeghanMurphy has still not been prosecuted for her hate crimes....in the meantime she has booked a hate rally."
Vancouver Public Library puts out extremely hostile anti-feminist notice.
"We have advised the police of the event; they will be monitoring and will take appropriate action should conduct breach the Criminal Code.
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We recognize that #MeghanMurphy’s opinions are concerning."
"We have advised the police of the event; they will be monitoring and will take appropriate action should conduct breach the Criminal Code.
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We recognize that #MeghanMurphy’s opinions are concerning."
Men announces he will come to #MeghanMurphy's event at Vancouver Public Library to shout her down, presumably because that is men's proper and accepted behaviour towards women. He's an actor too, so I imagine his voice must carry.
What will @VPL do then?
What will @VPL do then?
A propos of nothing...
1914, London: Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst arrested
1917, Washington: Mob of men tear up suffragette banner
mashable.com/2015/01/12/suf…
1914, London: Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst arrested
1917, Washington: Mob of men tear up suffragette banner
mashable.com/2015/01/12/suf…
1 / A fact for the next time someone tells you trans people are at an astronomically high risk of violence:
In 2017, the rest of Americans, looked at as one average, were just over 1.66x more likely to be murdered than a trans American.
Open the thread to see the numbers ↓
In 2017, the rest of Americans, looked at as one average, were just over 1.66x more likely to be murdered than a trans American.
Open the thread to see the numbers ↓
2 / thedailybeast.com/2018-is-shapin… The Daily Beast reported in July of 2018 that 28 trans Americans were murdered in 2017. As of July 2018, there has been 14 trans Americans killed, so basically on par for the same.
3 / In June of 2016, Time reported on a UCLA study which found that 1.4 million Americans identified as trans. That number, if anything, grew in 2017. But let's assume a little padding. That gives us 28 murdered out of 1.4 million. time.com/4389936/transg…
